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0. W. GONNER.

T AG AND TAG FASTENER.

No. 326,404. Patented Sept. 15. 1885.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS. Phumumo n hn. wnhinginn. D. C.

UNITED STATES OVID W. CONNER, OF VVABASH, INDIANA.

TAG AND TAG-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,404, dated September 15, 1885.

Application filed. March 28, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Ovn) W. OoNNER, of Wabash, in the county of lVabash and State of Indiana, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Price and other Tags, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to tags for marking the price or otherwise distinguishing goods and .merchandise, more especially bolts or packages of cloth and other fabrics; and it more particularly relates to that description of such tags in which a cord or other like flexible connection is interposed betweenthe ticket or card and the device which attaches the tag to the goods, which form of tag avoids the breaking of the ticket or card, and is otherwise preferable to one secured by a stiff wire. My improved tag, however, dispenses with any metal clamp for attaching the cord or thread to the card or ticket; and it consists in a combination of a card or ticket made of paper or other suitable material, a self-engaging hook, preferably a double one, made either barbed or plain, for attachment of the tag to the goods, and a cord -or like flexible connection directly connecting said hook with the card or ticket, substantially as herein shown and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part'of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a bolt of goods having a tag embodying my invention applied; and Fig. 2 is aperspective view, uponalargerscale, of said tag detached.

A indicates a double self-engaging hook, made of wire bent to form two hooks or prongs, b b, arranged side by side at a suit-.

looped into the eye or shank to connect the ticket and hook might be used; but the endless cord B, by shifting its wearing-surface, is preferable.

To apply the tag to the goods, as shown in Fig. l, the hook A is simply pushed backinto the folds of the goods D and then drawn forward to make it catch permanently, and by making the hook adouble one it is effectually held in position and restrained from turning over.

Constructed as described the tag is not only in every way efficient, but presents a neat and desirable appearance.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a tag-fastener, A, formed of wire bent between its ends and provided at the point of bending with an eye, (1, and having its arms twisted together, whereby to provide a stiff shank, c,

and havingsaid arms deflected laterally in opposite directions and thence carried forward in approximately parallel lines, the extremities of said arms being bent.- back upon themselves, forming hooks having their points projected toward the eye (I, all arranged and adapted for use substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the fastener formed of wire bent between its ends, provided at the point of bending with an eye, d, and having its arms twisted together, forming a shank, c, and deflected laterally and thence carried forward in approximately parallel lines, with their extremities bent back upon themselves, forming hooks having their points projected toward the eye (I, the tag proper, and a connection between such tag and fastener, substantiall y as set forth.

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WVitnesses MARY Goon, OLIVER H. Booms. 

